Thanks for all the replies. I hope this post helps others planting corn for deer.

First - yes - the soil is very rocky - limestone flagstones, churt, and some moraine type igneous rocks. We do pick off many of the rocks, anything larger than a Pie-Plate. We do however leave many-many smaller rocks, mostly because we do not harvest the corn - it is strictly for the deer - and the 16 rows of sweetcorn for us.

Dan- yes - our corn is about 6-10" less than maybe it should be. The Growing Days have been short so far - I read that we are 8-10 days behind avg. - Still I'm very pleased with the color of the corn, and the Roundup applications. On my Cultivated Field - we have higher than normal weed growth this year so far. I've put down (last week) a little extra Urea and cultivated it in- the corn looks good in most of that field, I hope it has enough N to produce decent ears with the weed competition - in the rows.

Ron - Thanks - the RR corn is as good as I'd read - I'm very pleased so far. Our corn planter is an old (1970s) IH 4 row planter. I do not know the model#. It works ok - but we have trouble getting parts, and plates. I bought up a bunch of differnet plates for $1 each, we "eyeball" the plates to the seed size. Still - it seems to plant a litte sporadic, and maybe too heavy - but it does a decent job.

We haven't done much work on the cabin lately - here is a picture from Mid June


And another from this past February:


I'm very happy with the cabin. I have made some tree plantings over the last couple years - that about the time of my retirement - should put it nestled in between some spuces, natural regenerated forest (already 30 yrs old), fields, a small cultivated apple orchard, and a sugar maple grove of 30 trees just uphill from the cabin.

We'll see about getting together some time - I read where alot of you got together in the NE Column, I just never seem to have the time.

Take care all,

Sean